Kosovo : Technical Assistance Report-Enhancing Social Protection Cash Benefits.

This paper assesses the sustainability of the public pension system, discusses recent and proposed changes to veterans' benefits, and reviews the effectiveness of social assistance in Kosovo. The social transfer programs created in the wake of Kosovo's independence are narrower in scope th...

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Autor corporatiu: International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept
Format: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicat: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2016.
Col·lecció:IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 2016/123
Accés en línia:Full text available on IMF
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Sumari:This paper assesses the sustainability of the public pension system, discusses recent and proposed changes to veterans' benefits, and reviews the effectiveness of social assistance in Kosovo. The social transfer programs created in the wake of Kosovo's independence are narrower in scope than similar programs in other European emerging economies. Poverty, the main policy challenge of the country, can be addressed through employment-friendly economic growth and pro-poor social spending. Kosovo's highly inequitable current system of social cash transfer represents a departure from the fiscally sustainable and conceptually homogenous structure of the early 2000s.
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ISSN:1934-7685
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